Electing our officers for the upcoming year. As always, we welcome new members who wish to learn about the actuarial program at LSU and/or the profession in general. We will also be organizing study groups for the actuarial exams.

Electing our officers for the upcoming year. As always, we welcome new members who wish to learn about the actuarial program at LSU and/or the profession in general. We will also be organizing study groups for the actuarial exams.

Shelly Johnson is a consultant for the two state retirement systems: Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (LASERS). There will be a presentation, discussion, and pizza.

ASA president, Chen Liu, writes, "Paul Richmond who works as a manager of Actuarial services at Louisiana legislator's auditor's office, will give us insights about the actuary advisory in Louisiana, He provides various actuarial consulting to legislature and public retirement system in Louisiana. There will be chat and question time followed.
It promises to be a good meeting and there will be refreshment served."

1.Chen Liu will give a presentation on her work from her summer internship. She will discuss cash balance plan in the state-wide retirement system.
2. We will also discuss seeking an internship for this summer and getting capstone credit.
3. Planning for exams.

1. Kayla Lato and Blake Winchell from LSU career services will give a presentation.
2. Mel Lazo, ASA member and Ourso college graduate student will discuss the how to set up a linkedin profile and the benefits of doing so.

Semester activities will be discussed including forming study groups and finding internships.
Advice for students in the Actuarial Concentration.
Selection of a new vice president.
Pizza will be served.

Kyla Kucharchuk from LSU career services will be the speaker. This meeting will benefit all students in the actuarial science concentration regardless of whether they are pursuing actuarial science as a profession.

Dr. Shreve from the department of analytics will coming to speak about the graduate program and the field of analytics. The Society of Actuaries will be expanding their requirements to include analytics in the next few years.

Skype call with Winnie Sloan. This meeting will be geared towards informing students about internships, resumes, industry practices with an emphasis on the casualty pathway for actuaries. This meeting is open to anyone interested in actuarial science.

Senior Actuarial student, Tia Jones will be presenting about her internship experience last summer. Jared Braud ASA, will be presenting his experience in specialty insurance on the health and life side.

Ken Alleman, Pacific Life LSU Alumnus Actuarial Assistant for Pacific Life in Orange County, CAASA Club Meeting

Hearing from Mr. and Mrs. Alleman, who are both practicing actuaries at Pacific Life. They will be discussing their internship program, different areas of the actuarial field, new-hire trends, and answering any questions from members. Pizza will be served.

Our speaker for the second meeting of the semester will be Mr. Nick Klinka, FCAS. He is an LSU alumnus and is currently working as a Senior Actuarial Assistant at Allstate. He will be giving a presentation to us via Skype.
Pizza will be served!

Hearing from speaker Mr. Matthew Arnold, FSA, MAAA. He works at BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana in Baton Rouge, LA as the Director of Actuarial Valuation and Senior Products. His presentation is on Commercial Risk Adjustment. Pizza will be served.

Ms. Shelley Johnson, a consulting actuary at Foster & Foster, LLC, will be our speaker. She works with the major state retirement systems and will be presenting about her job and other actuarial topics. Pizza will be served.

1. Winnie Sloan (is an LSU alumna, a Senior Actuarial Assistant for Travelers in St. Paul, MN, and has assisted many of our students who want advice from a professional actuary) is our speaker via skype.
2. Selecting new officers.
Pizza will be served.

West Dickens and Alaina Chifici (LSU alumna) from Protective insurance
will visit.
They will also set up some interviews for Friday October 25 for anyone
applying to their internship program.
Pizza will be served.

Senior, Sarah Davidson, will discuss her internship at CNA Insurance in Chicago

Nick Crifasi from AmeriHealth Caritas in Philadelphia will skype. Nick is an ASA in the Society of Actuaries and is an LSU alumnus.

Nick is requesting that seniors graduating in December or May give him their resume. Seniors graduating in December or May please send your resume to Kevin Li at kli27@lsu.edu, and he will send them to Nick.

Matthew Arnold from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana will be our guest speaker. He is one of their associate actuaries and one of LSU''s advising actuaries. His topic will be regarding Medicare Supplement/ Medicare Advantage. The meeting will take place at 6pm.
As always pizza will be served at the meeting.